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Mentor / New American Library (1965), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 284 pages
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The author reviews history from Sumerian days to the present time to show that throughout its course, East and West have alternately been dominant, the periodic decline of one civilization creating a cultural vacuum that was filled by the adjacent rising culture.
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Cyril N. Parkinson, most famous for his sociological studies of business, was also a trained historian, and wrote this interesting survey of the periods of Western or Eastern dominance of the Eastern hemisphere. His conclusion, that either the Russians or the Chinese would eventually oust the USA
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from promenence in that region, was food for thought at the time, and seems reasonable today. Show Less
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1963
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284 p.
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0451003365 / 9780451003362